Attempt to increase the transparency of fourth hurdle implementation in Central-Eastern European middle income countries: publication of the critical appraisal methodology

Table 2 Comparison of the Hungarian Critical Appraisal Checklist to some other international checklists

Name of the checklist	Drummond/CASP checklist	British Medical Journal (BMJ) checklist	Consensus Health Economic Criteria (CHEC) list	Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) grading system	Hungarian Critical Appraisal Checklist
Number of questions	10 / 12	35	19	16	91
Answer options	YES/NO/Can't tell	YES/NO/Not appropriate	YES/NO	YES/NO	YES/NO/Not relevant
Quantitative assessment (including weighting different items) available?	no	no	no	yes	no
Reference	[20, 24]	[15, 22]	[14, 22]	[13, 22]	NA.

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